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Day 1:
“He said he has an assistant. I’d like one too.”
…
You found yourself surrounded by darkness.
Day 2:
Your head was hurting so much, your ears were ringing, and even the slightest hint of light made you want to cry. You had absolutely no idea where you were or what was happening, the last thing you could clearly remember was that single line. Not even the images in your memory felt… right.
“She is almost ready… It won’t be long until we can introduce her to your fellow disciples, Saeran.”
“Really?” You could just about hear some sort of metal be dragged across the floor (the pain it caused for your head and ears was excruciating), before there were footsteps. Once they stopped, you ended up opening your eyes, and seeing a pair of legs just in front of you. “That’s good… That way, I can finally make Luciel pay for what he did to me.”
Disciples? Saeran? Luciel? You were getting even more confused by the second.
“Give her some more… She should fully come around after that.” The initial, rather feminine voice stated sternly, getting quieter as the sound of more footsteps echoed nearby. “Bring her to me as soon as you can. We can save her.”
‘Save her’? The only thing you needed saving from was…
It clicked in your head then. You could remember what happened before everything turned hazy.
Taking a quick glance upwards, you noticed the person from those few moments… His mint coloured eyes were boring straight into your own. It was odd… They were shining with a curiosity similar to that from when he contemplated making you into his assistant.
Whilst you were distracted with staring at the man who was essentially your captor, you never felt your chin be taken hold of because of a strange, almost patchy numbness present in your body. Suddenly, you began to wretch.
The taste in your mouth was vile.
Had he fed you something?!
“Shush… Relax.” You couldn’t exactly spit out what was in your mouth, because your chin was being held up in a way which stopped you from being able to open your mouth properly. “When you wake up… The saviour will be there for you, just as you will be there for me.” The taste was that disgusting, you couldn’t even bring yourself around into choking or gagging. You could only feel whatever it was slip down your throat. “Now sleep…” Your face suddenly felt more free after that, but you could feel your body giving up beneath you.
An arm caught you as you fell to the side, with your vision turning dark as that happened.
He was smiling.
“Welcome to the everlasting party…”
‘Ya. Two weird people ended up in the messenger yesterday, somehow.’
‘How is that possible? Only people you gave the app to are allowed to access the messenger, Seven! WAS IT SOMEBODY HACKING IN TO LOOK AT MY SELFIES?!’
‘I’m too scared to go back to lolol after hearing that;; do you know who it is?’
‘Luciel, you said that something else caught your attention today at about the same time though. What was it?’
‘It’s odd that he’s telling everyone, and not just you, V.’
‘I know, Jumin. I told him that if it concerns the messenger and the RFA as a whole to inform everyone, at least in this case.’
‘Okay, so, lololol just give me a second. I might as well post the video.’
‘A video? Huh?’
- 707 has left the chatroom -
‘So… What do you think that it could be? ‘
‘I would like to know, but I can’t stay here for long and neither can you, Mr Han. You have some paperwork which needs to be signed.’
‘Luciel did tell me the general details of what the situation is, Hyun. And don’t worry, Jaehee.’
‘Then what is it, V?! Is it… to do with Rika?...’
‘… Somebody was at Rika’s apartment at the same time as the strange messages being sent. Luciel believes that she was one of the two people in the messenger.’
Day 3:
You… felt satisfied. You weren’t sure why, but you did. Your pain had gone, and you were… strangely calm.
“Now that you are our newest disciple… I welcome you to Mint Eye. You have joined the everlasting party.” The pretty blonde woman wearing what seemed to be ceremonial robes approached you, and gave you a serious glance. “Saeran said that he wanted for you to be… his assistant. Why don’t you go and help him in trying to find new members for our party?”
Without so much as another word, she had gone, and a pale hand was placed on your shoulder. It was him again… So this was the Saeran you had heard about.
You didn’t feel the anger which you previously held towards him for taking you. After all… Your life was going nowhere before his first message to you in that strange chatroom. No job, no money, no home… At least you had a purpose now. And in all honesty… The prospect of an ‘everlasting party’ gave you something to think about and something to enjoy.
“Come with me to my room,” he suddenly mumbled, not giving you so much of a chance to respond. Normally you would have fought against someone trying to drag you to such a personal space against your will, but for some reason… You held no fear. You felt confident and at ease. Why was that so? You couldn’t help but think that it was something to do with whatever you were made to swallow… When was that again? You had no concept of time here… You had no idea on as to how long you had been unconscious.
Quickly, you were pulled down a multitude of halls which somehow felt familiar yet foreign to you, until you were brought over to a large metal door, which seemed electronically sealed… Almost like that weird apartment’s door. “This can only be opened by me. And only from the outside. If you get locked in, or if I lock you in on purpose, you have to wait for me.” He then gave you a smile which seemed somewhat menacing yet innocent. How was that possible? “It is good that I can have somebody so cute as my assistant… I am so glad that I didn’t have to remove your existence.”
‘Huh. Nobody’s on lololol.’
‘But I might as well post this now.’
‘I’m trying to track the phones of the two people who were in the messenger.’
‘But their gps signals are all scrambled. I can’t find them lolol’
‘Though I did find the woman’s identity online! I found all of her profiles on social media.’
‘She’s really pretty’
‘and it turns out that she’s a runaway.’
‘No job,’
‘No money,’
‘No home,’
‘She literally only possesses her phone and the clothes on her back’
‘lololol kinda like you zen when you ran away from home’
‘Anyway! I’ll report back if I find out anything more! Seven zero seven OUT!’
“And… Tell me more… About Luciel. And RFA. Who are they?” You whisper, sat on a seat as Saeran typed away on an impressive looking computer system. You notice his hand clench at ‘Luciel’, but that makes you all the more curious. “Did they hurt you?” Quickly, Saeran’s hand moved over to the mouse when you asked that, and opened up a file on one of the desktops. Within that file was six documents, each of which being quickly opened up on different screens.
“These people are the RFA. Our saviour wishes for all but two of them to be absorbed into Mint Eye,” he stated, before standing up and walking over to a desk in another corner in the room, and opening a laptop. “I need you to do something for me… Find out what you can about the four we need. Yoosung Kim, Jaehee Kang, Jumin Han, and Hyun Ryu, who is also known as Zen. Tell me when you are done.”
You didn’t feel right about prying into the business of other people… But you were thankful for Mint Eye, and what it had done for you. It gave you a purpose in an otherwise pointless life. It gave you a life instead of death. So you were going to do what you were asked by Saeran, because otherwise… Your life could probably be tossed aside, and become pointless once more.
Three of the people were quite easy to research once you had gone onto the laptop.
Jumin Han, director of a company known as C&R. RFA member since its founding. He was rich, and had a liking for cats. He is also single, and many rumours went around online from a mysterious online source surrounding him possibly being gay (and there were even memes about it that made you chuckle. 'Does Jumin Han is gay?'... pfft.). Also there were rumours that he could have been a robot. He owns a cat called Elizabeth 3rd. Jaehee Kang was the name of his chief assistant. He also rarely goes on social media.
Jaehee Kang, as mentioned, was the chief assistant of Jumin Han for the good part of two years, and has been an RFA member for just as long. She is busy most of the time, and has perfect work attendance records. She has not been granted a day off of break once whilst working, except for days in which the company had decided to be the day off for all employees. She is often made to care for Elizabeth 3rd, but would much rather spend her free time watching Zen’s musical DVDs.
Hyun Ryu, or Zen, was a rising star in the musical theatre business. He ran away from home almost a decade ago in order to follow the dream of becoming an actor, and after a video being posted online by a person under the alias of ‘God Seven’, who also emailed the video to thousands of people, he began to become rather well known. He lives in a basement apartment in the city, and likes to eat goldfish shaped bread. He likes to make quite the point over being single, and posts selfies all of the time.
Yoosung was the difficult one. He had social media… But it was hard to figure out anything about him besides him liking to play video games. Most of his images were screenshots of a game known as ‘LOLOL’, and the only other thing you could figure out was that he was blonde and had purple eyes. Saeran said that he would try and hack into LOLOL’s servers to find out his account details once you explained the situation, because presumably, his account possessed his age, contact details, and other information.
Once you had finished, you felt your hair being ruffled. “You’re a good assistant. I will treat you much better than Jumin Han does Jaehee Kang. You deserve a reward for doing this information gathering for me...”
Day 4:
Today brought around a new task for you to carry out. You were to send an email out to the four which Saeran had you research. You were given strict instructions by both Saeran and the saviour, who you discovered was called Rika.
One – you were not to name the saviour (that was how you had discovered her name.)
Two – Invite them to Mint Eye in the simplest way possible.
Three – The email address you had to use must be self-destructing so that it cannot be traced. That gave you a small window of fifteen minutes to send the email, and of course, you would get no reply back.
Four – Do not disclose information about yourself, or your current location.
Thankfully, it was an easy task for you to carry out.
You attached all four email addresses to the recipient line, before going into the main body of the email. Saeran had given you what looked like some sort of background to attach to the email, so you quickly inserted that. It had the Mint Eye logo on the top, just above where the text would be. Saeran was… so skilled… And kind. He was helping you out so much in your new, joyful life.
“Joyful?...” You paused for a moment just before your fingers ended up being placed on the keys. “Of course it is… I have Saeran. And the saviour. That is all I need to feel joy.” Once that moment of strange doubt left your head, you began to type what came to your head almost naturally. You were inviting them to the everlasting party, or Magenta, as Saeran sometimes put it.
Once it was finished, you pressed to send it… As soon as that was done, the email address did as requested. The fifteen minutes were up, and it had self-destructed.
Now a slight problem had arisen… Saeran had left the room once you had set off on your task. You were locked into the room… What were you going to do?
Slowly, you began to pace around the room a slight bit. That didn’t last long, because you grew bored particularly quickly. It took a short while after that for you to find a bookshelf, so you ended up picking up one of the books to read. ‘The basics of computers and hacking’.
Saeran was a hacker, right? Perhaps you could read this to help him even more during the absorption of the RFA into Mint Eye…
‘Everyone… I’ve been thinking… It has been too long. The RFA can’t stay as it is, without hosting parties…. So I think that we should host another party.’
‘What? V, are you serious?!’
‘Yes, Yoosung… Rika wouldn’t like it if we kept going as we were, as you have been saying a lot recently… I should have listened to you. After all… You are her cousin...’
‘V… Thank you. So much.’
‘Thank you?… There’s no need to thank me, Yoosung… In all honesty, this is because of what you have been saying.’
‘Wow… I don’t think that I’m going to be able to concentrate on lolol now… I mean, another party!’
‘Hah, it’s nice to see you so upbeat, Yoosung. Anyway, we should wait to see what the others think.’
‘I can contact Zen, if you want me to! ^^’
‘Sure, if you want, Yoosung. But I was thinking, if we did host a party… It should only be a small one. We should work up to having similar sizes as before. So… perhaps holding the party in a week will be a good time.’
‘Yeah!’
‘Anyway, I should be going now… I need to do something.’
‘Huh?’
‘What’s the matter, Yoosung?’
‘I just got a strange email...’
‘A strange email?… Hmm. What does it say?’
‘Let me just copy and paste it...’
‘Right.’
‘Here it is. ‘Yoosung Kim, this is your invitation to the everlasting party. Come to the place where you shall be happy, and experience satisfaction for the rest of time. Join Magenta – join Mint Eye.’ I’m kinda… creeped out by this, V;;’
‘Mint Eye?… Let me call Luciel. Forward the email to him, quickly. Tell him that I said to forward it too.’
It’s only because you’re new here… That is the only reason… Soon, there will be no need for this so often… This is all for Mint Eye…
You took a deep breath, before swallowing what was in your hand as Saeran and the saviour stared at you. Shivers went down your spine, but an overwhelming feeling of… something went around your body. For some reason… You felt even more attached to Mint Eye… More specifically, to Saeran. What caused that?… You weren’t too sure…
“Good… She is very loyal to our party. Thank you for bringing her to our Magenta, Saeran. She truly knows what eternal happiness involves.” The savour smiled, before walking past you both. Saeran glanced at you for a moment, before taking hold of your wrist. It seemed he had another task for you to do, so you didn’t resist. You had no reason to resist, after all…
Once you went through the ever more familiar halls, you ended up inside Saeran’s room once more. He walked over to a locked drawer, and opened it slightly. What he pulled out surprised you… It was your phone. You could have swore that you dropped it at that apartment he had led you to…
“Give me a moment.”
You sat down by the laptop which you had been working from for Saeran, watching as he did something with your phone. Normally, you would have screamed for him to stop, and to leave it alone… But you didn’t get that feeling this time. Quickly, he pulled the back off it, before inserting something inside. The back was replaced, before a wire was plugged into the charging port, which seemed to be connected to his network of computers. He placed it down on beside his keyboard, before opening up a program on his desktop.
“Come here.” You obeyed him, and walked over to where he was now sitting. “Open up the app which you downloaded the day which we met. I need to hack it.” Once more, you followed his instructions. What intrigued you was that everything you did on your phone was displayed on the computer screens.
You pressed the app, which was meant to be a simple game for you to play when you had to wait around in parks for your so-called friends to meet you, and give you the support you needed to get by. “It’s open. What now?”
“Username. What would you like your username to be? Just as mine was ‘Unknown’, you need one too.”
You fell silent for a moment, before closing your eyes. “If your username is ‘Unknown’, then I think that I should have something following a similar suit… ‘Mystery’, perhaps?” You notice Saeran nod as he quickly typed that into his computer, before he then turned around in the chair to face you.
“Right. Just do what comes natural to you when it comes to speaking. Same rules as the email – do not speak of Mint Eye, or the saviour. If you must mention me, simply call me ‘Unknown’.”
You watched in surprise as you were suddenly connected to a chatroom, with seemed to have a casual conversation going on.
‘lololololol another party~ paaaaaaaarrrrrttttaaaaaayyyyyyy!’
‘wtf seven;;’
‘Luciel, Zen… Look.’
‘Huh? Look at what?’
‘SOMEBODY ENTERED THE CHATROOM.’
‘U- Uh… Hello...’ Saeran nodded as you made a somewhat timid introduction to the three people who were logged in – 707, Zen, and Jaehee.
‘WOAH WOAH WOAH, WHAT IS THIS!? A STRANGER? IN MY CHATROOM?!’
‘Luciel...’
Saeran quickly turned to face you, and gave you a serious glance. “I’m going to try and hack into the chatroom so that I get updates on whenever anyone logs into it. Also, I am going to try and hack into Jaehee Kang’s and Hyun Ryu’s phones, so that I have constant access to their GPS and location. Keep at least those two in the conversation for as long as you can. I couldn’t care less about Luciel.”
“Understood.”
‘So… Who are you, and how did you end up in this chatroom?’ Jaehee got straight to the point, that was for sure.
‘I’m trying to track them as we speak…’
‘I’m… Not sure…’
‘Huh? How could you not be sure?’
‘You must surely know who you are.’
‘My name… It is as the username implies… It is simply ‘Mystery’. I do not know how I ended up here...’
Saeran was rapidly tapping away at his keyboard, messing about with various different codes and programs. “This may take a while. Luciel is trying to break through the codes I used to conceal your phone’s GPS. If he almost breaks it… I will have no choice but to break your phone, just to stop him. I have managed to get into Zen’s phone, so it shouldn’t take long to get into his GPS.
‘ZEN, TURN OFF YOUR PHONE.’
‘Huh?’
‘QUICKLY. JAEHEE, YOU TOO.’
‘What? How come?’
‘I’LL EXPLAIN LATER, NOW QUICK!’
“SHIT!” Saeran slammed his fist into the desk, before standing up. “Luciel realised that I was trying to hack in, and he’s trying to force your phone into disconnecting!”
You look at your phone, before deciding to type in one last message with Saeran’s permission before Zen and Jaehee logged out.
‘Such a shame…. Such talent put to waste in such a vile and wasteful organisation.’
Moments later, your phone was forcefully disconnected, presumably by Luciel, and you clenched your fist as you placed your phone down. Saeran began to type even faster then, knowing that it wouldn’t be long until his computers end up being disconnected from the RFA servers, alongside Zen and Jaehee’s phones.
You noticed that one screen began to light up then, indicating a success over something, whilst the others suddenly went dark… And were replaced with something strange.
“He thinks that this is a joke! Internet cat videos?!” Saeran stood up, eyes filled with anger, before taking hold of your wrist with a bit too much force. “Damn Luciel… I will kill him! You will assist me, right?”
“Of course, Saeran.”
“Good… Good. Luciel will pay for abandoning me and breaking his promise… He will pay for preventing me from doing this for the saviour!”
Day 5:
Rather than focus upon trying to hack into the RFA app, Saeran was currently doing his best in trying to find a way to get access to all of the RFA’s databases and confidential materials. You were told to do small favours for him. Once every hour, you were to update the saviour on Saeran’s progress. Every once in a while, you were to bring Saeran a drink of water and something to eat. Other than that, you were requested to monitor one of Saeran’s screens which had a long code present on it, and you had to inform him straight away if any of it changed. He claimed that it was to do with some sort of ‘security system’, and he only wanted to mess about with it when ‘Luciel has finished doing some useless tampering with it’.
Come what you assumed was mid-afternoon, you sighed and rested your head on Saeran’s desk, giving him a weary glance as he continued to type. “Have you been sleeping?” He mumbled, eyes remaining fixed upon one particular screen to his left. It looked as though it had security footage from a building somewhere in the city. It said ‘C&R’ on it, so you presumed that this building was the one belonging to the company which that Jaehee Kang and Jumin Han were part of.
“Not really… I’ve been thinking about how my life here has more purpose than before when I should be sleeping,” you whispered, before looking up at the correct screen once more. “Look… Luciel is changing the code...”
Saeran glanced at the screen, before nodding. “I am going to speak with the saviour for a while. Continue to watch the screen for me.”
You nod, before rubbing your eyes and sitting up properly once more. You didn’t want to fall asleep whilst he was outside the room, as you were informed that there was punishment here for disobedience…
It was a relief for you that he wasn’t gone too long. By the point that he had returned, the code had stopped being altered, and seemed to be kept as it was.
“I told you that I was not going to treat you in a way which Jumin Han does his assistant.” Saeran stated, pulling your chair out quite quickly. That surprised you, but feeling him pick you up was even more surprising. “The saviour is pleased with your assistance so far, so you have been permitted to rest for the remainder of the day, and I can spend at most an hour of it with you. I expect you to sleep once I return to my work.”
You then felt your body lying upon something… soft. You knew that there was another small room attached to this one, but you had no idea that this room was actually the room which he slept in.
His arm was underneath you as you adjusted yourself to a comfortable position, before he ended up giving you a quick smile. “I should tell you about why I resent RFA member 707.”
“Luciel?”
“Yes...” Saeran closed his eyes, and you felt his arms move to enclose you. “He promised me… That we would escape from that vile woman… She abused us… Punished me… Made me hurt, kept us a secret from the world! And he left on his own! He abandoned me!”
“You knew each other when you were younger?!”
“Ugh… Unfortunately… I should have died, than have to put up with my stupid twin brother’s false promises!” Saeran seemed to both crying and filled with anger by that point. “If I ever see him… I will kill him. I will kill Luciel!”
His anger was understandable… Nobody should break a promise, especially one such as that. “And if I see him… I will kill him for you, Saeran. You do not deserve such a horrible brother.”
It was surprising to see Saeran bury his head into your chest, tears pouring out even more. His bleached hair was brushing against the slightly exposed skin of your collarbone and shoulders, and you felt the overwhelming urge… to just protect him.
Anger was building up in the pit of your stomach as he wept, and that made you wrap your own arms around him. “I will make him pay for doing this to you…”
“S- such a good assistant… I am so glad that I chose you...”
Day 6:
‘The party will still go ahead. We will just need to make sure that all of the RFA members are safe and protected until then.’
‘I agree… Though after all that has happened over the past few days… I can barely concentrate on my acting! It’s five days until the party, and I’ve got two performances between now and then!’
‘Don’t worry, Hyun. Everything will be fine… I’ve asked Jumin to send security guards to each RFA member, myself included.’
‘Are you sure, V?...’
‘Yes’
-Jumin Han has entered the chatroom-
‘Good afternoon, V.’
‘Jumin.’
‘Ugh.’
‘Meow :3c’
‘UGH.’
‘Hyun, Jumin, please… Save this for after the party, okay? It’s bad enough that there is a group trying to pull the RFA apart, we don’t need it falling apart from the inside.’
‘Well, just get him to stop saying anything to do with cats.’
‘So, V, how is the guest list for the party going along?’
‘Quite well, actually… The contacts which you and Jaehee passed over to Yoosung were quite useful, and we have at least five of them definitely attending.’
‘Wait, you’ve got Yoosung working on managing the guests?!’
‘Don’t worry. I’m with him.’
‘Huh, okay...’
‘Good. I am glad that those were of use. How about Zen’s guests?’
‘...’
-ZEN has left the chatroom-
‘Jumin…’
You and Saeran, after you had caught up on sleep, spent the entire night coming up with a plan. It had obtained the saviour’s approval, and now you were making the final preparations.
“So, the security system is essentially a bomb. It is set to go off if anyone who is not a member of the RFA enters the apartment through the door,” Saeran stated, picking up a phone and pressing on the screen a few times. “I just need to update the code, and it will work in reverse – strangers can enter, RFA members can not. We’re going to do that. However… we’re not going in through the door. We’re going in through the window. We won’t be noticed by the security cameras that way. I’m sure that he will be aware of who you are and what you look like.”
You nod to show your understanding, before opening up the laptop which you had sent the emails to the four chosen RFA members from. “I presume it is the address which you first sent me to?”
“Yes.”
You then open up a map, online, and study the surrounding locations. Your job was to figure out where the safest nearby locations were, and to identify the locations of all security cameras nearby. Neither of you wanted Luciel to figure out what was going on by seeing you through the cameras…
“Hmm?” Red hair was quickly pushed away from the lenses of a pair of glasses, before eyes were narrowed. “They’re planning something… The hacker may have deactivated any sort of location tracking system on the computer which they sent those creepy emails from, and also used false emails, but they never deactivated the webcam...”
Luciel smirked as he quickly typed in something on one of his monitors, before watching as the display changed. “Aha! I knew it… She must be the hacker, or at least working with them...” He looked at your face through the silent screen, watching as you moved your finger quickly across the laptop’s trackpad, before burying his hands in his chin. “She’s cute… Ugh, why do all the villains have to be cute!” He then outstretched one of his arms to grab his open packet of Honey Buddha Chips, but found something in the way.
“Agent 707, shouldn’t you be doing work for the agency?! You’re going to have us both-!”
“Vanderwood, please… Relax. I’ll get it done. I’m just having to keep an eye on this pretty lady right here.” Luciel gestured over to his screen, before noticing that another person was there beside you. “Oh? Hello there, who is this?” The image was rather blurry, but he knew that it was a man who was with you. As the image cleared, the person behind Luciel began to frown.
“That man… Looks an awful lot like you.”
“You think so?...”
Luciel studied the screen for a moment, before his eyes grew wide.
He recognised that person.
“Shit, I-” He froze, before disconnecting the wires from the back of that screen. “I have a phone call I need to make. I’ll get to work as soon as it’s done, Vanderwood. I swear.” He grabbed his phone, and ran as fast as he could into the garage, and jumped into the car which he knew was most soundproof.
Moments later, he typed in the number which he needed.
“Hello?”
“Yoosung? Gah, is V there?! I need to speak with him desperately!”
“Yeah… Let me just pass him his phone.” Yoosung went quiet for a moment, before you heard him speaking. “It’s Seven… He’s sounding really stressed out.”
“Thank you, Yoosung.” Another moment of silence, before V’s voice was heard down the phone. “Luciel, are you okay?”
“To be honest, no, I’m not.”
“How come?”
“The hacker… I- I know who the hacker is...”
“Who?”
“V… It’s Saeran. WHY IS MY TWIN BROTHER TRYING TO BRING THE RFA DOWN?!”
Day 7:
A wheezy cough forced its way out of your throat, causing you a horrible pain which you didn’t want to describe in any words other than ‘sore’. Saeran gave you a slight stare every time that you coughed, presumably because you kept breaking his concentration, and you couldn’t help but feel bad. But why were you feeling like this? Quickly, you typed in one last piece of information which was needed, before closing the laptop and taking a deep yet loud breath.
“A- Ah...” You winced, before clutching at the material of your skirt. “Not good… This isn’t good...” You did your best to stand up, but your chest could only feel like it was trying to crush you. “I’m going to mess everything up-”
Saeran span around in his chair, before sighing as he walked over to you. He held onto the top of your arms as you managed to stand, before then turning you around to face him. His eyes were fixed on your weary ones, and he could only grin once he realised something. “You’re definitely a part of Magenta now. Your eyes...” You never realised that Saeran actually happened to be quite the ‘touchy-feely’ person before that point, as his fingers were moving everywhere. Your arms, your hands, your waist, your back, face, everywhere. “Your eyes are mint coloured… Good… You’ve taken to this wonderful new life better than others.” There was a strange tingling feeling across your body wherever he had touched, and it somehow got your mind off the pain in your chest. “You’ll lose all your pain soon… Just close those eyes.”
Suddenly, you found yourself pulled up close to his body, and almost as though he was controlling your body, your eyes began to close shut.
“Magenta is lucky to have you… You might have to become more than just my assistant soon.”
When your eyes opened, you found yourself in a room which you recognised somewhat (you believed that it was Saeran’s room), but one thing was definite. You felt light, your mind was clear, and the only bad thing was the burning hatred towards one person in particular… You frowned at the thought of that person, you didn’t even want to think of even that person’s name. All you knew was that they hurt Saeran, and they were going to pay.
Other than that, you felt quite good.
Beside you, on what looked like a bedside table, there was a phone ringing. Your phone, even… Didn’t Saeran have that though? You reached out, and picked it up. An unknown number was calling you… Would you risk it?
Silently, you pressed the ‘answer call’ button, and remained quiet as a voice came out.
“It’s not too late now… You don’t have to trust those people...” There was a moment which sounded like the person was fumbling around with the phone that they were using. “I mean it. I understand that you have nowhere to go, nothing to help you get by… But we can help you.”
You snap back at the man who was on the other end of the call. “I don’t know who you are, or what you are implying. I am fine, and I most definitely have somewhere that I belong.” How dare they imply that you have a life away from Mint Eye… You have more of a life here than you ever have! “Who are you?”
“You might not know me… But I know that you are aware of some of my companions.” The man made a quiet sigh, before he continued. “Please… Leave that place whilst you can. I can take you away from here to proper safety if you wait for a few hours. Luciel can keep you secure, Jumin can provide you with the money to get by and a job, Yoosung is a great friend. Jaehee and Hyun can-!”
“SHUT UP! The RFA is vile and a disgusting organisation… I will bring you down one by one, and bring all of your members here… and I will kill Luciel. Don’t you doubt my words, because I will. For Saeran.” Silence lingered for a good few moments, before the sound of the call having been cut off coming from the device in your hands. After a moment had passed, you turned the phone around and looked at the back of it. You had no choice. Someone in the RFA had your number, it wouldn’t be long until he got his hands on it… Perhaps he had it already.
You winced as shards of the screen dug into your bare foot after you threw the phone onto the ground and stood on it. No more… You were going to cut off your ties to the outside world, and enjoy life here. The everlasting party was all that you needed… Saeran was what you needed.
Weird.
That was very, very weird.
Your focus, similar to that of everyone else here, was to invite people to Mint Eye.
But you seemed to have that as one of four focusses… One was that, of course. The second was to do as you were told by Saeran, because you were his assistant here. The third was to get revenge on Luciel for what he did. The fourth… Was simply just Saeran.
Saeran, why was your mind so fixated on Saeran?
Saeran, Saeran, Saeran…
“You woke up… Good.” And now he was smiling so sweetly at you… God, this was going to make your mind even weirder.
Day 8:
‘V… I want answers now. And I don’t want you to try and avoid my questions like you did over the phone. All of the other members are here, and no doubt they’ve got their own questions too. But I need my answers now.’
‘Luciel. I promise, I will explain. Now is just not the time.’
‘V, you’re avoiding whatever Seven wants to ask you! Just like you avoided the RFA and the matter of Rika’s death until some woman appeared near her apartment! Are you surprised that I find it trust you?! Seven trusted you the most, but if even he loses trust...'
‘Yoosung, allow V to take his time...’
‘Shut up, trust fund jerk. This tension is really getting to me and it’s making it so hard for me to actually work, so I would rather people have their questions answered so that things can return to normal before the party...’
‘I… have to agree with Zen, Mr Han. V, would it be possible?...’
‘Right. I will try to explain what I can for now.’
‘Good. So, why is my twin brother trying to hack into the RFA messenger?’
‘WHAT?! SEVEN HAS A TWIN BROTHER?!’
‘God-!!’
‘I never even...’
‘...’
‘I’m not sure, Luciel.’
‘You’re not sure?!’
‘Yes… Around the time of Rika’s death, your mother ended up dying too… I suddenly lost contact with him after that. He disappeared, almost as if there were no traces of his existence… I was persuaded that your father had got to him, because of the commotion surrounding your home after your mother had died.’
‘… But our father never got to him… He got pulled into that ‘Mint Eye’.’
‘Your father? Who is that?’
‘Zen, don’t be so direct! It might be dangerous...’
‘… I’m one of the prime minister’s illegitimate sons. DON’T mention that ANYWHERE outside the chatroom.’
‘WHAT?!’
‘Anyway V, you honestly don’t know how Saeran ended up there?!’
‘No, Luciel.’
‘… I’m going to take him back. I’ll try to get that woman back too.’
‘Seven! Take me with you, I’ll help!’
‘I will too.’
‘Zen, Yoosung… No. This is something for just me to do.’
‘Take them if you leave, Luciel.’
‘...’
‘V, assistant Kang, and I can sort out the party. Don’t worry. Just as long as you are back before it starts.’
‘… Fine. Zen, Yoosung, be at my house within the next hour. I’m going to try and trace the last known coordinates of the woman’s phone.’
-ZEN has left the chatroom-
-707 has left the chatroom-
-Yoosung★ has left the chatroom-
‘V… The three of them will be safe, right?’
‘Jaehee, the three of them are capable… I am sure that they will be. I’ll make sure of it.’
‘Good… I’ll take your word on that then.’
‘It was good to speak to you, V. Assistant Kang, we have work to do.’
‘Ah, understood. I’ll find you in the conference room in two minutes.’
-Jaehee Kang has left the chatroom-
‘V… Tell the three of them to update what is going on surrounding this situation on here every so often.’
‘I will, Jumin.’
-Jumin Han has left the chatroom-
‘I promise, everyone… I’ll answer everything soon. At the party.’
-V has left the chatroom-
“… Luciel has messed with the code even more. I don’t think that it will be possible to change it now. It is too late to break into that apartment too… We’ve failed.” Saeran stated, suddenly pressing the power button of his computers. Behind you both, you could just feel the build up of anger from the saviour.
“I expected more from you, Saeran. I should have brought Luciel here and got him to do this instead.” Her voice was loud and frustrated, and you were glad that you had your back to her and were looking at the now blank computer screens behind Saeran.
“You should leave. Make a new Magenta where failures such as myself are not needed. Take her with you,” Suddenly, you felt Saeran nudge you forward towards the Saviour. Your eyes finally met her green ones, and the rage present in them scared you. She then slowly stepped towards you, and she made a face which looked like a snarl.
Neither you nor Saeran noticed her clenched fist. You only became aware of it when your head hit the ground following a sudden impact on your stomach. Falling onto the ground knocked you out instantly.
Saeran’s eyes grew wide at the sight of your limp figure on the floor, before he turned to give Rika a stare of both fear and disbelief.
Her face had turned blank by that point, and the face she was giving to Saeran was unreadable. “She’s clouding your judgement, Saeran, just as the RFA have Luciel’s. I should have left you with your mother. I won’t make that mistake again. Disciples… Take my hacker and his ‘assistant’, and increase the dosage.”
Rika left the room as quickly as some of the disciples ran in, and Saeran could only feel… Fear. Fear at a much worse level than that his mother made him feel. Fear that he was going to lose you.
Before the other disciples could get to either of you, Saeran had been able to run over to you and lift you up off the ground by hooking his arms underneath your knees and back. He had never even realised that in just over a week his loyalties had shifted so greatly.
You were cute, that was a given. But when he worked… He had gone from simply doing as he was told to doing what he was told and needing your happiness to urge him on. He needed to see you smiling as he worked. He didn’t like it if you felt tired, ill, or upset, and he would go searching for ways to remedy that before he continued what he was doing. He had been able to confess what his past was like so easily to you just days after meeting… It took months for him to open up to Rika and V after his brother’s disappearance.
There was just something about you which was unlike Rika, unlike V, unlike Luciel… And his emotions were too conflicted to figure out what.
“T- Touch me… Or touch her… A- And… I’LL SHOOT YOU ALL!” Saeran was seething as he stepped closer to the other door present in the room, holding you closer to his body than before. “I don’t trust any of you or the saviour any more… GO AWAY!”
“I found the location her phone was last… It seems to be a strange building in the mountains. Practically in the middle of nowhere…” Luciel mumbled, before turning to the other two RFA members present. “Yoosung… I need you to stay here and watch my computers for me. Tell me of any changes in the satellite feed of the building. There’s no need to leave until Zen and I return. Help yourself to the Honey Buddha Chips as a reward for doing this. Oh, and I’ve changed all of the gate and door algorithms, so you’ll be the only one here,” he stated, before turning to Zen. “We’re going to that building.” Now he moved over to his computers, and opened up a few files containing images, before pulling out a floppy disc and opening the images on that.
Zen was confused at why all of those images were being opened, and Yoosung was curious about the people on the images.
“Seven… Are those-?...”
Luciel looked at the images which came from the floppy disc, and sighed. “Those are images which V and Rika took of Saeran a few years ago… He doesn’t look like that now though.” He removed those images, before pulling up a few fuzzy security images. “That’s him now…” Zen was quite shocked at the difference in Luciel’s brother in a matter of years. He had gone from a smiling boy with bright red hair and shining yellow eyes similar to Luciel to a man who seemed to have a lost look on his face, bleached hair, and strange coloured eyes. He looked particularly… edgy too, in Zen's opinion.
Zen stepped closer to the computer screens, and bit his lip.“Seven, why did you have to leave-?”
“You… Don’t need to know. And… Please… Stop calling me Seven or Luciel. My name... is Saeyoung Choi, and… I’m not going to run away from that any more. I’ll even change my name on the messenger to show this.” He then closed all of the images of Saeran, leaving only the images he had managed to gather of you up on his screens. “I… will do anything to get my brother back...”
Not much more was said after Saeyoung’s request, other than when he was showing Yoosung different features on his computers, and explaining which ones were optimal for playing LOLOL if he wanted a quick break from watching the satelite feed every once in a while.
Of course, whilst the two were busy talking about the game (and whilst Yoosung was sulking as he found out that Saeyoung was the number 1 player in his server), Zen was beginning to get curious about what was on the other screens. One of the screens had a strange green building on it, and he straight away knew that this must be the building that he and Saeyoung were going to be heading to. He wondered how far away it happened to be though… On a different screen though, there seemed to be video footage from inside a room somewhere.
Zen tapped Saeyoung’s shoulder when he noticed something going on in the footage. At first he was batted away, but grabbing hold of the redhead’s shoulders was enough to make his attention snap to the screen.
“Huh? That’s footage from the webcam I hacked into because the hacker sent those weird emails from it...” Saeyoung began to type into one of the keyboards as Yoosung began to spin on his seat, much to his frustration. “We’ve got no sound… But I can probably turn on the computer’s microphone to listen to what’s going on.”
Zen sat down in another seat, and was now becoming quite curiously amused at how easily entertained Yoosung was with spinning on a chair. Both of them stopped what they were doing when a sudden burst of sound came out of the computer’s speakers.
‘I TOLD YOU, I’LL SHOOT YOU ALL!’ Saeyoung turned pale as he heard that be shouted, before he did his best to try and enhance the resolution of the video footage. On it, he could vaguely see Saeran stood near a wall, holding onto you whilst holding his arm out. He had a weapon in his hands. No wonder he was threatening to shoot people. “Y- You dare lay a finger on us! You’re all horrible… You and that stupid saviour Rika are worse than Luciel!”
All three RFA members present froze as they heard the name of the one responsible for bringing them all together all those years ago.
“Rika…” Yosung stood up, and was close to tears as he moved closer to Saeyoung. “That’s it, I’m going with you too-!”
“No!” Saeyoung yelled, before slamming his fist down. “I’m not putting you in any unncessary danger. V is pretty damn worried about you enough, Yoosung. At least I know that Zen is much more capable of handling himself if the worst does happen!” Saeyoung then grabbed hold of Zen’s arm, and began pulling him away to the garage. “Yoosung, update everyone on the messenger every so often. I’ll get Zen to do the same. We’ll be back before the party… hopefully.”
Day 9:
Saeran had kept himself locked up in his room for a good few hours now. He had ended up doing as he had threatened, and shot at the disciples trying to grab hold of both of you. They weren’t fatally shot, but the injuries were enough to make them back away. After that, he had hacked into the door to keep it closed unless somebody else hacked into it. He knew that his brother had been planning to come here at some point, as firewalls hadn’t been enough to keep him out once he had tended to your head injury.
You had only just recently regained consciousness, and you were a slight bit woozy as he kept checking up on you. He made sure that you were never stood up for long just in case you collapsed, and he was honestly doting on you a bit too much. “As soon as you are no longer dizzy, we are leaving. The saviour betrayed me the moment that she hurt you… Just as Luciel betrayed me by leaving me to be hurt...” he whispered in one of the moments where he was being excessively careful with you. “I don’t want my cute… lady to be hurt.” He was trying so hard to find a word other than ‘assistant’, and it seemed as though ‘lady’ was the best alternative for him.
You laughed quietly at that, before closing your eyes and allowing yourself to relax a slight bit.
“I… I mean it! You’re the only lady in my life who hasn’t hurt me!” Saeran was quite frantic to get you to open your eyes once more, and when you did, his face was hardly an inch away from yours. “You won’t hurt me… I won’t let you hurt me, not that you want to, right?...”
You shook your head, before resting your hands on his shoulders to stop him from shaking. “I wouldn’t… You’ve been hurt enough...”
Saeran seemed to relax quite a lot as you said that, before one of his hands moved to your cheek. “Cute,” he whispered as he suddenly closed the gap between you, turning your face a vivid red colour. His eyes were closed as he kissed you, so he obviously wasn’t aware of just how surprising that happened to be.
Saeran only considered stepping back when you flinched as you felt his cold fingers just underneath your sweater. He looked at you with confusion for a moment, before placing his hand against your forehead. “You’re hot… Are you feeling well?” He paused for a moment, before giving off a timid laugh. “Whoops...”
This was probably the most innocent and sweet he had seemed ever since you had met him… You liked the Saeran who was part of Mint Eye, but you liked this Saeran even more…
‘UGH I DID NOT WANT TO SEE THAT;;; I CAN’T CONCENTRATE ON LOLOL AFTER THAT’
‘lol what was it yoosung? saeyoung’s curious and i’ve took his phone off him so he concentrates on driving’
‘Saeyoung? Who is Saeyoung?’
‘Saeyoung is Seven. Lol.’
ZEN has posted an image
‘See? that’s saeyoung behind the pinnacle of good looks on your screens ;)’
‘ANYWAY;;; CAN I PLEASE TELL YOU WHAT I HAD TO SEE????’
‘Go ahead, Yoosung.’
‘thanks, jaehee… basically, the screen of saeyoung’s which is connected to that computer at the enemy’s hideout...’
‘Go on...’
‘I JUST HAD TO WITNESS SAEYOUNG’S BROTHER AND THAT LADY KISSING FOR LIKE, TWO OR THREE MINUTES STRAIGHT;;;;;;’
‘MY EYES NEED BLEACHING’
‘IF IT WEREN’T FOR HER SUDDENLY FLINCHING I’M SCARED THAT THEY WOULD HAVE GONE A LOT FURTHER’
‘MY GOD’
‘DSNjbshguiHUIHNBAHall;;..’;];’
‘… wow...’
‘Saeyoung just shed a tear saying ‘my baby brother has finally grew up! But i’m still dragging him back’. Lol.’
‘I thought they were twins.’
‘I think Saeyoung is a few minutes older...’
‘OH GOD HE’S PULLING HER SOMEWHERE;; THEY HAD BETTER NOT BE-’
‘LOL SAERAN’S GONNA GET WHAT SAEYOUNG IS NEVER GONNA GET IN HIS LIFE’
‘… I feel uncomfortable in this conversation now.’
-Jaehee Kang has left the chatroom-
‘Oh wait a second, he’s just took her over to a desk and pulled something out.’
‘You don’t think that he’s pulling out a… you know... if they're going to...'
‘It’s a phone...’
‘Oh. Okay.’
‘You’re dirty minded, Zen;;’
‘Any man has those sorts of thoughts, Yoosung… Innocent, innocent Yoosung...’
“You’re… wanting me to look after your phone?” You looked at the item in your hand, before giving Saeran a look of confusion.
“Yes… You’ve been exposed to the outside world for much longer than me. You should know any numbers that we need… I’ve managed to put the phone numbers of the RFA members on there too. If worst comes to worst… We will have to call them,” he whispered, resting his head on your shoulder as he made sure that you kept hold of the phone. The way in which he seemed more open to the idea of contacting people so closely associated with his brother… Was this because of the way in which the saviour… betrayed him so suddenly?
Saeran caught you by surprise as he suddenly kissed you again, before laughing at the shock on your face. “I… like that. My cute lady.”
You glanced at the phone again once more, before turning it on. It was a somewhat old device, but it was in quite a good state. Then, when you turned it on… He had an image of you as his background. It must have been from a a few days ago, after you had fell asleep holding onto him.
He smiled so sweetly when he noticed your reaction to that, before he got an idea. “Check to see if the RFA messenger is on there.”
“Uh...” You moved into a menu, before nodding. “Yes… Do you want me to log into it?”
“Yes.”
And so… You pressed to open the app.
-Unknown has entered the chatroom-
‘What?… Unknown?’ Jumin was present in the chatroom, and was caught by surprise at seeing that username.
‘HUH?! SAERAN, IS THAT YOU?!’ Somebody with the username ‘Saeyoung’ was online too.
You hold the phone out to the man before you. “Uh… Saeran? Somebody called Saeyoung is asking if it’s you...”
“Saeyoung?...” He paused for a moment, before taking hold of the device. You stood behind him so that you could peer over his shoulder at the screen.
‘…Yes.’
‘LITTLE BROTHER!!! OH GOD, I’VE BEEN SO WORRIED ABOUT YOU!’
‘Okay. Look, I’m only coming on here to pass on a message. I don’t care if you come here or not, there’s a lot of Mint Eye members hidden here waiting to get me and my cute lady. You’ll just get hurt.’
‘Ahhhhh, the cute lady you were making out with before?’
‘… The only cute lady is Elizabeth 3rd.’
‘Yeaaaah~ Elly’s cute~ Anyway! It’s too late, little brother! Me and Zen are right outside the building!’
‘… Ugh. Stupid brother.’
Saeran quickly closed the app, and passed the phone back over to you. “It frustrates me talking to him so much… But why did he decide only now to go back to being called Saeyoung?” He walked over to the computers, before closing his eyes and waiting for a moment. “He had better be lying about being here...”
At that moment though, the door finally opened. You thought at first it was just Saeran’s brother and Zen, but the hands on your arms moments later said otherwise.
You mind was hazy, and you were preferring death over the pain you were in. Time had passed, but you weren’t sure how long. All that you knew was that it was still the same day as before.
Saeran… You weren’t too sure on where he was. All that you knew was that he had been pulled away from you by ‘the saviour’.
“She’s still got some awareness. The saviour wants her to have no awareness of the world whatsoever whilst she uses her to… persuade her disobedient disciple into doing as he’s told. We need to have her completely brainwashed.” Suddenly, something else was shoved into your mouth, and you were wretching as a hand remained clamped over your mouth to force you into swallowing it. You were growing sick of how frequently you were being forced to take those weird drugs which changed your eye colour and made you mind act different to how it used to.
Now there was the sound of two pairs of fast moving footsteps nearby. “That’s not a nice way to treat a princess, is it?” And then you heard a loud crash onto the ground. “They’re quite thick-skulled, that hurt my fist… Ow. At least I heal like a beast.”
You attempt to pull yourself up from the floor to see who was there, but your body just felt far too heavy. And your eyes… They were far too heavy.
You lost consciousness moments later.
Day 10:
‘V, we’ve had to take refuge in some abandoned cottage… It’s not too comfortable…’
‘Right… And… did you manage to get Saeran and the woman?’
‘Yeah… Saeyoung is stuck to Saeran’s side, trying to look after his injuries. Saeran’s being rather stubborn about it though, he just want to be by his ‘cute lady’s’ side, but she’s unconscious...’
‘Unconscious?’
‘Yeah… Those Mint Eye people forced her into overdosing on some weird medicine, and I think it was too much for her. I also think they were trying to do that to her in order to force Saeran into hacking for them again.’
‘What are you and… Saeyoung planning to do now?’
‘Taking our two new companions to the hospital. That’s the only way we can persuade Saeran to listen to us and not lash out at Saeyoung.’
‘Do you think that you can make it back for the party?’
‘I probably can. Saeyoung… I think he’s going to try and get on with his brother. Hah… Maybe I should do the same at some point.’
‘You should, Hyun.’
-Saeyoung has entered the chatroom-
‘Hey, Zen?… She’s woke up. Can you see if I’ve got some food in my car? She’s pretty hungry judging by the sounds we can hear from her stomach.’
‘Really? Right. Give me a minute.’
-ZEN has left the chatroom-
‘V… I don’t believe that I’ve found my brother… I’m so scared...that he hates me.’
‘He won’t hate you… I’ll try and speak to him when you get to the hospital, and explain everything to him. Which hospital are you going to, for that matter?’
‘Okay… I’ll trust you on that. And… Give me a while to discuss that with Zen, he knows which hospitals are best near home.’
You’re still in pain, and feeling somewhat fuzzy. You hardly remember much since being separated from Saeran, those memories were just so… hazy. All that you know is that you’re now with Saeran once more, and he is quite literally attached to you. There’s some other people… But they’re stood a bit too far away for you to see if you know who they are.
“Here. They’re a bit, uh, sticky and sweet… But it’s all that we’ve got in terms of food,” One of the blurry people threw over what seemed to be two packets of some sort of food, one for you and one for Saeran, and looking closely enough, your eyes lit up. They were the rare Honey Buddha Chips. Saeran was quite taken aback at just how eager you were to start eating, and he could hardly speak because of how loud your rustling of the packet was.
You can’t speak at the moment, because something seemed to be holding you back from doing so, but that didn’t stop you from giving Saeran a small smile. You think that he smiled back at you after that, and pulled your body close to him.
“… Saeyoung. I still hate you for leaving me. I still want to kill you. I probably will end up killing you.” Saeran was grumbling as he pulled you up onto his lap, before he ended up sighing. “And you. Zen. Thank you for stopping that idiot from killing my cutie.”
“Whaaaaaat?! I was the one who brought Zen here, so surely your big brother deserves some thanks, Saeran!”
“Hmph.”
All that you can do in response to that is relax against Saeran, and you felt something be pulled around you to act almost like a blanket as you did that. It seemed to be the black jacket which he often wore. You could feel that you relaxing made him calm down somewhat, so that was quite the relief.
You’re tired now.
‘We’re… At the hospital now. It’s the one near Jumin’s penthouse.’
‘Saeyoung? What is the matter? You seem quite down.’
‘Assistant Kang has a point. You’re not right.’
‘Of course I’m not right! Rika and V promised to protect my brother, but he vanished! And now I’ve suddenly got him back, and he wants me dead! I’ve literally just found out that I've lost my job and now the agency I was working for is after me, and God damn it, I need to get Yoosung out of my house because he doesn’t know the codes!’
‘Saeyoung… Relax, okay? V said that he was going to try and speak to Saeran and tell him what happened...’
‘That probably won’t be possible for now. Saeran’s had to be sedated. He lashed out because his ‘cutie’ was separated from him for emergency treatment because of some stupid drug that she was made to take at that Mint Eye.’
‘Sedated…’
‘… I… I might go for now. Let Yoosung free. Besides, Saeran seems to be fine with Zen, so leaving him here will be okay.’
-Saeyoung has left the chatroom-
‘Mr Han… Will it be worth going to the hospital to see if everything is okay?’
‘We need to prepare for the party tomorrow.’
‘Understood.’
Day ???:
The party you helped to host was a huge success! You know what, I’m so glad that we persuaded you and Saeran to join the RFA. You may have been persuaded to think that we weren’t decent people at first… But we try not to be, and you know that now! My cousin founded the group with V, who I believe that you met at the hospital when you were there a few months ago, and they worked so hard to host a party which raises funds for those who need it!
Anyway, you seem to have quite the way with people… I don’t believe that you were able to get so many guests to attend, and to get Saeyoung and Saeran into getting over their differences and forgiving the past! Or at the very least… Made them less likely to kill each other.
Everything will be great from now on! I’m so glad that we get to be great friends, and can have more parties for the RFA in the future with you and Saeran included!
See you soon (or in the messenger)!
Yoosung Kim
Quietly re-reading the letter which you had received from one of your newest companions, you couldn’t help but smile. It had been a few months (you weren’t too sure on how many) since you had first found yourself pulled into the situation where you met Saeran, and now… Things were completely different.
Every day was fun, and more unique than any other day. After all… That’s what you get for living with your husband and brother-in-law.
Saeyoung would constantly hack into both your and Saeran’s phones, and save any photos he deemed worthy of blackmailing you with for Honey Buddha Chips or some sort of new computer.
Saeran would hack into Saeyoung’s phone when he wasn’t in a good mood, save all of his cross-dressing pictures, and then post them on the messenger and on social media. Somebody who Saeyoung apparently knew called Vanderwood would often die laughing at the images.
You found it funny being caught between such sibling fights.
There was one thing you found much more entertaining than that though… And that was taking over all of Saeyoung’s sofa with Saeran, either cuddling with him, kissing him, or doing something like reading a book with him. Saeyoung would constantly brag about eventually getting a girlfriend of his own to show you both how it felt to see that constantly.
As you folded up Yoosung’s letter, and placed it alongside similar ones which you had received from Zen, Jaehee, and Jumin, you rested your head on Saeran’s shoulder and smiled as he held onto you as tight as humanly possible. “I love you...”
“I- I love you too...” His face turned red and he looked away in embarrassment as your mint coloured eyes met his own. His red hair, no longer a bleached white and pink colour, almost covered his eyes from the angle he was looking down at. “I- I’m so glad that I got somebody cute t- to stay with me...”